facts and STATS

Stats for 2005 (the calendar year)

• 51 designated trades and 6 designated occupations
• 6,823 individuals certified in the designated trades and occupations
• 17,896 new apprentices registered
• 46,472 registered apprentices as of December 2005
• most common age of Alberta apprentices registered for the first time is 19
  

  
  
  Source: Alberta Advanced Education
  * Age at date of registration
  ** The 15,764 total in the chart above includes only individuals registering in their first trade in Alberta in 2005. This number differs from the total number of new apprentices registered (17,896) as presented in Table 3. The number of new apprentices registered includes those who are returning to do an additional apprenticeship after completing one or more apprenticeship programs in previous years.
  
  Mean - defined as the sum of the ages of all apprentices divided by the total number of apprentices involved, i.e., average age.
  Median - defined as the middle age category with an equal number of apprentices younger and older than this group.
  Mode - defined as the largest age category or most frequent age of apprentices.

• More than 1,100 technical training classes were offered.
• Approximately 750 employers and employees were involved in a network of over 160 local and provincial apprenticeship committees and occupational committees. All committees are composed of equal numbers of employers and employees.
• More than 1,400 high school students were registered in the Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP).
• Over 1,800 apprentices who started in RAP are currently continuing in a regular apprenticeship program.
• 169 scholarships of $1,000 each were awarded to apprentices. An additional 269 scholarships of $1,000 were awarded to high school students in RAP.
• The employment rate for apprentice graduates in the labour force is 97%, based on the results of the 2005 graduate survey.
  

  
  
  Source: Alberta Learning, January 2006
  * The size of the employer is determined by the number of trades people employed

• In 2005, 39% of apprentices were trained on employer sites with 10 or fewer tradespeople; and 18% in firms with more than 100 tradespeople.

For more detailed information, see the Board's Annual Reports